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2023-02-05: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-02-04). US issues ludicrous "spy balloon" charge against China. wsws.org The hysteria over the balloon points to the increasingly strident war propaganda emanating from Washington against China, as well as the potential for such a minor incident to be inflated to trigger a military conflict.

ecns.cn (2023-02-05). (W. E. Talk) Dong Ping: How do the Tanshishan cultural relics prove the pluralistic origin of Chinese civilization?>. ecns.cn Tanshishan is the earliest named archaeological culture on China's southeast coast and the first recognized in Fujian Province, also the source of marine culture in Fujian and Taiwan during the pre-Qin period, before 221 B.C. In October 2021, the 100th anniversary of the birth of modern Chinese archaeology, the Tanshishan site was selected as one of China's Top 100 Archaeological Discoveries of the Century. It is the only one selected in Fujian Province.

Janet Post (2023-02-04). Workers across China protest wave of layoffs, unpaid wages. themilitant.com Local governments across China are increasingly trying to crack down on protests by workers fighting spreading layoffs and growing unpaid wages. They have "threatened to punish workers who take 'extremist measures,' such as protests blocking traffic or outside government offices to get the money they are owed," reported the Financial Times Jan. 24. | Workers' actions increased in the days leading up to Lunar New Year celebrations, when millions of workers who have migrated from rural areas to work jobs in the cities travel home to visit families and friends. The government in Beijing had largely barred such visit…

WSWS (2023-02-04). US issues ludicrous "spy balloon" charge against China. wsws.org The hysteria over the balloon points to the increasingly strident war propaganda emanating from Washington against China, as well as the potential for such a minor incident to be inflated to trigger a military conflict.

ecns.cn (2023-02-05). (W. E. Talk) Dong Ping: How do the Tanshishan cultural relics prove the pluralistic origin of Chinese civilization?>. ecns.cn Tanshishan is the earliest named archaeological culture on China's southeast coast and the first recognized in Fujian Province, also the source of marine culture in Fujian and Taiwan during the pre-Qin period, before 221 B.C. In October 2021, the 100th anniversary of the birth of modern Chinese archaeology, the Tanshishan site was selected as one of China's Top 100 Archaeological Discoveries of the Century. It is the only one selected in Fujian Province.

Janet Post (2023-02-04). Workers across China protest wave of layoffs, unpaid wages. themilitant.com Local governments across China are increasingly trying to crack down on protests by workers fighting spreading layoffs and growing unpaid wages. They have "threatened to punish workers who take 'extremist measures,' such as protests blocking traffic or outside government offices to get the money they are owed," reported the Financial Times Jan. 24. | Workers' actions increased in the days leading up to Lunar New Year celebrations, when millions of workers who have migrated from rural areas to work jobs in the cities travel home to visit families and friends. The government in Beijing had largely barred such visit…

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